A true sign of being mid-career! My coauthor, Brad Osborn , teaches at the University of Kansas, and taught a graduate seminar in...

Because my dad is an attorney and keeps up with legal news, he sometimes sends me articles about legal issues in music. Recently, he sent...

It's obvious...right? A song is a short piece of music, usually with lyrics. But the law makes it more complicated. I've written about a...

Is there a hard line between real and fake? I'm a real person. My friend Jenny is a real person, too, even though a part of her elbow is...

Last year, a friend sent me this New York Times article by Eric Ducker about "trailerization" (check it out - it's an audio article, so...

My Masters and PhD advisor, Jim Buhler, did a lot of great things for me when I was working with him. Despite the fact that he oversaw my...

Happy New Year! As you nurse your hangover, check out this perfectly legal image below. It's a still from Walt Disney's 1928 cartoon...

I grew up listening to the Beatles, thanks mostly to my dad, although I had surpassed him in my degree of fandom by the time I entered...

Almost a year ago, a student of mine asked if I had heard David Guetta and Bebe Rexha's new remix of a '90s song. Well, I didn't know who...

I was able say that my work anticipated this New Yorker article by Jaron Lanier - whoa! I've read two of his books, and find his writing...

(I like to parse it as S-MTV, because I think I'm funny.) This is a publication announcement! A couple of years ago, someone suggested...

(Did you even know that he was experiencing injustice?) I don't know if anyone was following this story as closely as I was (except for...

It's quite unfortunate, but I feel as though I must write about Long Furby. These very strange suggested items from Etsy appeared on my...

I know, I'm taking a break from this blog. But then I heard this song on TikTok that made me laugh out loud, and I just have to share it...

I haven't gone fishin'. But I have gone publishin', which explains my absence from this blog as of late. I wrote a chapter for this book,...

...It's Hank Williams + Van Halen, of course! Anyone who has read my work or seen any of my conference presentations knows that I love...

I remember seeing this video on YouTube maybe ten years ago (it has since been taken down and re-posted), and it really fascinated me....

A couple of weeks ago, a friend posted this fantastic genre-clashing mashup on social media: It's by prolific mashup artist Bill...

I've decided not to write about DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop" this year, but instead to write about a (mashup? medley?) that he...

A student recently brought this mashup by Nate Ramsey to my attention: Of course, this is the mashup of the Cardi B/Megan Thee Stallion...